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I’m disappointed we’re not seeing Godts from the start, but I’m sure we’ll get a cameo. On the plus side, Romeo Lavia has had such bad luck with injuries, so it’s always good to see him on the park.

Van Bommel also makes changes. In net, Senne Lammens, who’s been excellent in replacing Thibaut Courtois, is himself replaced, by Maarten Vandevoordt – it’s his debut too. Otherwise, Joaquin Seys is in for Maxim De Cuyper, while the suspended Youri Tielemans and Kevin de Bruyne are replaced by Roméo Lavia and Nicolas Raskin. Up front, Romelu Lukaku and Diego Moreira take the places of Mika Godts and Charles De Ketelaere.

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Assistant coach Anthony Barry says new structure means their key attackers are not ‘caged in’ after 7-0 rout of Croatia

Anthony Barry knows the hunt is on. The England assistant coach has been through the debriefs. He has mulled over the minutiae with Thomas Tuchel to such an extent he is allowed to make a joke at the boss’s expense. “He’s doing my head in,” Barry says with a smile. What is the missing piece of the puzzle? After all the emotion of England’s semi-final finish at the World Cup, how can they take the decisive step to glory?

It is early days in the Nations League campaign, which everybody at the Football Association wants to use as a slingshot into Euro 2028 when England will co-host, but Barry can see the genesis of an answer. It comes down to liberation, enabling England’s top players to fully express themselves, and there is a reason why he finds himself talking about Jude Bellingham.

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Police and security agencies in multiple countries scramble to piece together background and intentions of Hamam al-Hammami

Investigators believe that the co-pilot who tried to take control of a plane from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week originally planned his attack for July but postponed the hijacking, possibly because a friend was among the crew, regional and Israeli officials have said.

The evidence of prior planning suggests that Hamam al-Hammami, 29, may have specifically sought employment with an airline that flew to Israel in order to carry out the attack on last Wednesday’s flydubai ‌flight FZ1073, experts believe.

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Tit-for-tat expulsions expected after relations deteriorate as a result of UK ban on goods from illegal settlements

The UK has threatened to expel one Israeli diplomat for every British diplomat forced to leave Israel as a result of Israel’s decision to close the UK consulate in East Jerusalem later this week.

This could mean as many as 27 Israeli diplomats being expelled from the UK, a step that would arguably mark the lowest point in British-Israeli diplomatic relations since the formation of the state of Israel.

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Politicians must redouble their efforts to tackle a disturbing pattern of pupils assaulting classmates

The Guardian’s findings about the extent of sexual abuse in schools require an urgent, calibrated response. Data revealing multiple rapes committed each year on school premises in England and Wales is hard to comprehend. Yet this is what freedom of information requests to police forces, covering the period from 2021 until last year, have revealed. As well as the severity of the offences, the youth of many of the victims is disturbing. More than 8,500 sexual offences at or near schools were committed against under-13s, most of them girls.

Data about perpetrators contains gaps, including their age and sex. While the overwhelming majority of such acts are carried out by boys, we don’t know the exact proportion, nor if there is an age gap between those carrying out abuse and those being targeted. Only 33 out of 43 police forces shared their data, meaning that large areas including Scotland are not represented. But whatever the exact details, and allowing for the fact that these are reports, not convictions, the findings are deeply dismaying.

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Max Verstappen returned to winning ways with a beautiful drive at a rain-hit Sepang, in a race that featured plenty of overtaking. But while he and his Red Bull team celebrated, many of his rivals were left downbeat. Lawrence Barretto selects his winners and losers from the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.

De invoering van betaald parkeren in heel Rotterdam ligt gevoelig bij bewoners. Er zijn inmiddels protesten, inspreekavonden op het stadhuis en zelfs een crowdfunding voor een rechtszaak. Toch zijn er ook positieve geluiden van bewoners: “In de vakanties is het hier een ramp om te parkeren."

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Vance werd in juli 2024 natuurlijk uitgelachen en weggehoond door de bien pensant toen hij suggereerde dat Engeland ooit als islamistische kernmacht een bedreiging voor de VS zou kunnen gaan vormen. Maar voorvallen als deze verwijdering van alle twaalf Amerikaanse B-1 Lancer langeafstandsbommenwerpers zijn in zekere zin heus wel een vage voorbode van een ontwikkeling in grofweg die richting. 

Op 27 september werden "five British nationals from London" tussen de 23 en 25 jaar oud in witte busjes gearresteerd nabij de RAF-basis Fairford. Er werden geen explosieven aangetroffen, maar wel 'grote hoeveelheden brandstof'. Op 1 oktober werd een 25-jarige zesde persoon gearresteerd, die een "Brits-Iraanse nationaliteit" had. Geen van de namen zijn bekend gemaakt, maar we verwachten weinig Smith, Jones en Williams.

Inmiddels zijn alle zes verdachten alweer vrij op borgtocht, maar het probleem meneer dat blijft. De New York Times schrijft: "The United States rushed over the weekend to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation, two U.S. officials said on Sunday. The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone. The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States."

Een etno-cultureel intact Engeland zou de mankracht hebben om de veiligheid van zo'n basis te waarborgen, maar dat is het niet.

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De spraakmakende heropening van een zaak rond beschuldigingen van groepsverkrachting op de campus van Cornell University, die aanvankelijk niet strafrechtelijk werd vervolgd, heeft een virale campagne losgemaakt op sociale media. ‘We zijn niet boos genoeg’

Vergeleken met elf andere Europese landen blijkt Nederland als een van de weinige niet de staatsschuld extra te laten oplopen om defensie-uitgaven te financieren. En maar heel weinig andere landen bezuinigen op sociale zekerheid. Wat kan Nederland leren van die landen?

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Huawei and Qualcomm on Monday announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, compute, and networking technologies, along with Qualcomm's purchase of certain Huawei U.S. patents in those same fields. The deal is the first patent licensing agreement between the two companies to cover 5G technologies, according to Reuters. Huawei said the agreement is expected to bring the cumulative value of its patent licensing deals above $6.9 billion upon closing.

The agreement includes cross licenses to both companies' patent portfolios and is structured around fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, principles, the company said. The transaction will close following receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals. [...] The company noted that its intellectual property licensing unit has been profitable since 2021. Huawei made its first licensing payment to Qualcomm in 2001 and received its first licensing income, from Motorola, in 2011, according to Reuters. American export controls that took effect in 2019 have curtailed Huawei's access to cutting-edge chips and essential software, according to Reuters. The constraints pushed Huawei to increase its research and development spending in recent years.

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